Machines for Shoulder Shrugs (Video)

Machines for shoulder shrugs will help develop your trapezius muscles, among others. Find out about machines for shoulder shrugs with help from a certified personal trainer in this free video clip.

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Hi, I'm Jay McLeod. Today, I'm gonna show you machines for shoulder shrugs, okay? Shoulder shrugs, just simply doing this, helps develops your trapezius muscles, okay? This muscle that lays right on top of your deltoids also drops further down your back. So if you want high, thicker shoulders, I'm gonna help you develop just that. First exercise I'm gonna show you is shoulder shrugs with the Smith machines, okay? Just great for safety. So I'm gonna grab overhand grip, okay? With my quads pressed against the bar. I'm gonna drop my butt, I'm gonna stand up and I'm gonna release. I'm gonna curl my palms towards me, okay, I'm gonna curl that bar towards me to release the safety latch. Now from here, I allow my arms to come down and hang. Okay? And all I'm gonna do is simply raise my shoulders to my ears, here, okay? To really work my traps. There we go. Okay? Raise up, now a lot of people rotate, I don't rotate to build my, my traps, okay? I just bring them up and down. Simple two motions, up and down. Okay, so the next exercise I'm gonna show you is a cable bar shrug, okay? So, with the straight bar attached to a cable pulley, I'm gonna grab an overhand position, okay? I'm gonna allow my, once again I'm gonna allow my shoulders to kind of draw away from my ears, really stretching out my traps. Now from here I'm gonna raise, I'm gonna shrug my shoulders up towards my ears, squeeze at the top, and slowly lower. Once again, shrugging my shoulders up to my ears, squeeze, slowly lower. Making sure to get that stretch at the bottom of the movement.